دِينَار dinars in Arabic
دِينَار is how you say “dinars” in Arabic.
Root د ن ر d-n-r. noun (arabicized loanword). dīnār.
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Meaning of dinars in Arabic
- a dinar — a certain gold coin weighs about 71½ barley-corns, the same weight as the mithqāl
- money, currency in general (chiefly in the plural دَنَانِير, dananir)
Example sentence
تالله لقد زَاد على السبك فِي كل دِينَار دِينَار
By God, he surpassed in quality every dinar by dinar.
دِينَارٍ dinar
A noun 'dinar', the owner completing 'every dinar', genitive (the tanwin), indefinite. Each coin of his worth.
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How it is used
دِينَار is an arabicized (non-native) word rather than a native Arabic triliteral formation. One account traces it to Persian; another to دِين آر ('the law brought it'). Some say its true original form was دِنّار, with one ن changed to ى to ease pronunciation and avoid confusion with verbal-noun patterns like كِذّاب — which is why its plural is دَنَانِير rather than a form with ى in it. Despite the loanword origin, later Arabic verbs (دَنَّرَ) and derived nouns (دُنَيْنِيرٌ, مُدَنَّرٌ) were built from it as if from a native root.
Words from the same root
- دَنَّرَ (of a face) to glisten like a dinar; also, to possess many dinars
- تَدَنَّرَ form V, same sense as دَنَّرَ
- دُنَيْنِيرٌ diminutive of دِينَار, 'little dinar'
- دِينَارِىٌّ relating to a dinar, as in a reddish wine named for its dinar-like colour
- مُدَنَّرٌ coined (of gold); a man with many dinars; a horse or cloth marked with dinar-like spots
More example sentences
تالله لقد زَاد على السبك فِي كل دِينَار دِينَار
By God, he surpassed in quality every dinar by dinar.
دِينَارٌ by dinar
A second 'dinar', nominative (the tanwin) — the worth-statement's subject, 'a [whole] dinar'. So: in every dinar of others' worth he was a fuller dinar — gold beyond the assay.
وعن مالك بن دينار قال
And from Malik ibn Dinar, he said
دِينَارٍ Dinar
The father's name closing the patronymic. It takes the genitive ending as the owned second term after 'son of': the man is the son belonging to this father. Arabic builds 'son of so-and-so' by placing the two names directly together with no separate word for 'of'.
وكذلك ملأ ترجمة جعفر بن سليمان بما يروى عن مالك بن دينار ونظرائه،
Similarly, he filled the biography of Ja'far ibn Suleiman with what is narrated from Malik ibn Dinar and his peers,
دِينَارٍ Dinar
The father's name closing the 'son of' link, in the owned-by ending. It completes the full name of the cited authority.
فَجَاءَتْنِي فَأَعْطَيْتُهَا عِشْرِينَ وَمِائَةَ دِينَارٍ
Then she came to me, so I gave her one hundred and twenty dinars.
دِينَارٍ dinars
A noun naming the coin, in the singular genitive because that is the shape Arabic uses for the thing counted after a number like this. The single form does not mean one coin; it is just how the counted unit is marked when the total is large.
Common questions
- How do you say "dinar" in Arabic?
- دِينَار (dīnār).
- What is the plural of دينار?
- دَنَانِير (dananir), 'dinars'.
Related words
Definitions summarised from Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (E. W. Lane, 1863–1893).